TliE I. A. A. RECORD 



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Grain, 



Marketing" 



C^vAVAN A. GRAY, socrctjry of ihc 

 A Southwest Co-operative Wheat Grow- 

 ers Association, and Arthur T. Riley, man- 

 ai^er of the Salin.i, Kansas, brant h of the 

 I armers Union Jobbini; Association of Kan- 

 sas City have accepted positions with the 

 Farmers Xatlon.il Grain Stabilization Cor 

 poration. 



Gl-ORGE S. MILNOR, formerly prcsi 

 dent of the Sparks Milling Company 

 of Alton, III., was recently elected presi- 

 dent of the Grain Stabilization Corporation, 

 and general manager of the Farmers Na- 

 tional Grain Corporation, according to n 

 announcement by President C. E. Huff. 



Joshua M. Chilton, formerly manager of 

 the grain merchandising department of the 

 Checkerboard Elevator Company of St. 

 Louis, was named as assistant to the gen- 

 eral manager. 



Mr. Chilton has had 20 years' experience 

 in the grain business at St. Louis, Kansas 

 City, and Denver. 



R. T. Paradis of Minneapolis will con- 

 tinue as a representative of the Farmers 

 National Grain Corporation on that market. 



WALTER L BEAM is the new treas- 

 urer of the Farmers National Grain 

 Corporation. Fie served as controller of 

 the $500,000,000 U. S. Grain Corporation 

 during the war. 



Deposits of potash salts of such thicknes^ 

 and purity that they may be mined cheaply 

 have been discovered by the Bureau ot 

 Mines in Texas and New Mexico. 



1 he principal potash mineral disclosed by 

 the government drilling is polyhalite, a sul- 

 phate of lime, magnesia, and potash, which 

 contains an average of 12 to 15 per cent 

 of potash (KjO). 



Milk Bond Lata 



JUSTICE Pound of the New York State 

 Court of Appeals recently upheld the 

 law requiring milk dealers to take out a li- 

 cense to deal in milk and to file a bond to 

 insure payment for milk to producers in 

 that state. 



The law was attacked as unconstitutional 

 and so held by the Appellate Division at 

 Rochester. The State Court of Appeals re- 

 versed the decision of the lower court and 

 so now the law is sustained by the court of 

 last resort in New York state. The com- 

 missioner of agriculture had $2,000,000 of 

 bonds on file. 



Speak For Limestone-Phosphate Service 



The following letter received by R. j. l.jibic, farm adviser in Marshall -Putnam 

 county came in response to an inquiry regarding results from the use of rock phosphate. 



MY LANDLORD, .Mr. James Foster 

 of Varna, has purchased in the 

 last two years, more than 7 5 tons of r.iw 

 rock phosphate for use on the farm which I 

 operate Im Roberts ri>wnship, .Marshall 

 County. 



" The use of this phosphate has enabhd 

 us to greatly increase our yield of grain, 

 and it has also helped us in securing stands 

 of red clover. I .\m writing to let you 

 know that 1 appreciate the work the 1 arm 

 liure.iu has done in helping me sell the rock 

 pho'-phate idea to my landlord, as it is now 

 Working out to both his advantage and m\ 

 own. 



"Inasmuch as both ,Mr. Foster and my- '^"' "• Johnson. Marshall County 



self are Farm Bureau members, we of course appreciate the 5()c per ton siiscount re- 

 ceived on these shipments. In addition, we know that we are getting what we pay for 

 because of the analysis of each carload by the Illinois Agricultural .Association when the 

 phosphate is loaded at the mines in Tennessee. I want you to put me down as one 

 hundred per cent in favor of the work the Farm Bureau is doing in this direction." 



CARL O. JOHNSC^N. 



Stanard Heads New 



Dairy Products Co. 



STILL.MAN J. STANARD, of Edg.ir 

 county, former state director of agri- 

 culture and well known to farmers through 

 out Illinois, is president of the newly incor 

 porated F'gyptian Dairy Products Ci)mpan\ 

 which operates butter, ice cream, and milk 

 plants at Mcl.eansboro. 

 Fairfield, and Eldorado 

 in southern Illinois. 

 [ he new organization 

 was incorporated earl> 

 this year. The supply 

 (■i milk and cream for 

 the first plants is be 

 ^H -w ^^^m ing bought in Hamil- 

 ^^r ^^^^ Vl'ayne. 



^^H ^S^H ^'hite, Gallatin, 

 id joining counties. 

 S. J. Stanard The McLeansboro 



Creamery Company, 

 line of the three plants operated by John 

 Stelle, secretary of the new organization, 

 bought the first co-operative pool cream in 

 the state according to Mr. Stanard. Farmers 

 about Dahlgren in Hamilton county organ- 

 ized a co-operative cream ptM)l in the winter 

 of 1922-'23 with the help of Burt Abney 

 then farm adviser in Jefferson county. This 

 cream piKil not only obtained a better price 

 for local producers but it influenced the or- 

 ganization of similar co-operative pools >i\ 

 southern Illinois. 



Competition For Cream 

 The Dahlgren pool later disintegrated, 

 but now assistance is being given by the 

 Jefferson County Farm Bureau in reorgan- 

 izing it. Swift & Company has been buying 

 cream about Dahlgren, paying three cents 

 above the st.uion price. Local competition 

 for cream has influenced buyers to offer a 

 higher price during recent weeks. 



I l-.e Egyptian Dairy I'roducts Company is 

 now getting the total output of the co- 

 o(vrative produce marketing association at 

 I nlield in V.'hite county, which coniroK 

 about 75,000 lbs. of butterfal a \ear. 



rlie company which Stanard heads is co 

 ■ iperating with the Illinois Produce .Marktt- 

 ing .•\ssi>ciation under the new marketing 

 a'.;reenient .innounccd a short time ago. 



Appel Disappears 



^I'^lil. advisability of bonding treasurers 

 _L of local mutual insurance companies 

 as a matter of good business judgment is 

 reve.ilcd in a recent press report. Edward 

 C). .\ppel, secretary of three mutual insur 

 .Mice companies in .Madison counts. III., at. 

 cordin.; to press reports, disappeared on 

 .\pril l'> tt lien otficials told him thev 

 planned an examination of his Isooks. 



C:har!es Rozier told authorities that there 

 is m apparent shortage of S 15, 000 to 

 S20,000 in Appel's accounts. Policyholders 

 in insur.tncc companies endorsed by tiic 

 Illinois ,\gricultural Association have their 

 investments in these organizations protected 

 since the officers charged with responsibility 

 lor monevs are bonded. 



Iroquois^ Schedule 



Till. Iroquois C^ountv Farm Bureau 

 baseball team has adopted a schedule 

 of games as follows: 



May 3 1 Iroquois vs. Grunds at .Morris 

 June 14 Iroquois vs. LaSalle at Vi'atscka 

 June 28 Iroquois vs. Kankakee at Kankakee 

 July 12 Iroquois vs. Grundy at >)i"atseka 

 July 26 Iroquois vs. LaSalle at Ottawa 

 .\ug. 9 Iroquois vs. Kankakee at Vi'atscka 

 H. G. Pendcrgrast has been appointed as 

 manager. B.iseball suits and equipment have 

 been purchased in readiness for the first 

 game. 



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